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On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
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It is often desirable to solve the two-dimensional multigroup transport equation for (r-z) geometries directly given by hydrodynamic calculations. Usually, only Monte Carlo codes can compute α or k eigenvalues on such geometries. Most deterministic codes use an orthogonal mesh or restrict the mesh to a regular triangular grid. Other methods were developed at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and Los Alamos National Laboratory but do not solve the problem of sliding between two Lagrangian blocks. Thus, a production code has been developed that solves these problems and is able to obtain α or k eigenvalues with a good degree of accuracy for such geometries.